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This map is designed to be forever updated with locations and information about dive sites. It will provide the history for many of Victoria's historical shipwrecks from it's oldest to those that have only recently hit the bottom. It will give you information on dive sites accessible from both shore and boat. And best of all you can learn about the mass of dive sites that are on offer.
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Piers |
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| For hundreds of years Victoria's piers have been an often important part of our history, but now they are the place to go when you don't have time to get out on the boat and just want a quite relaxing dive on a Saturday morning. The piers around the bay offer a wide range of marine life from the huge rays at some of the bigger piers, to schooling fish and the tiny critters that live amongst the pylons. If you are an avid photographer piers are a great place to hone your skills whether it be artistic photos of divers to macro shots of nudibranchs and seahorses. |
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Reefs |
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| Victoria has countless systems of reef that support huge numbers of marine plant and animal species. Unlike reef all around the world you can be 20m away from the dive site and be in a complete new formation of reef. There is a huge diversity of structures and thus a huge diversity of marine life, from the Lonsdale Arches with the sweeping archers carved out of the rock to Lonsdale and Nepean Walls that drop and step down from 30m-100m. |
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Wrecks |
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| There are hundreds of shipwrecks that litter the Victorian coast, some were sunk by storms and by accident; others were put there because they had outlived their usefulness. Either way they provide a playground for Victorian divers. Some are accessible from the shore and others lie as far down as 84m and up to 20km off shore. Have a look at the map and pick one of over 70 wrecks and go for a dive. |
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Marine Parks |
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The Victorian Government has created a system of 13 Marine National Parks and 11 smaller Marine Sanctuaries.
These parks and sanctuaries now protect 5.3% of Victoria's coastal waters, safeguarding important marine habitats and species, significant natural features, cultural heritage and aesthetic values. |
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| These points of interest are at some locations around the bay that provide a short side dive site that you may like to visit, some may not be a dive site at all, it could be something like the anchor from a ship that now rests in the graveyard so keep an eye out for the place on interest markers. An example of these places of interest is the guns off the HMAS Cerberus at Black Rock. |
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Information sourced from
Parks Victoria
Victoria's Ship's Graveyard
Bayside Beaches of Port Phillip Bay - Ray Lewis
Heritage Victoria
Disclaimer
-The locations provided are not meant for navigation purposes
-Some marine park boundaries were created from GPS coordinates others were done by eye so use this map only as a guide and check with Parks Victoria or Fisheries to get the exact locations.
Think we missed something? Or having troubling seeing the map? Send us an email at info@aquability.com.au or for help on viewing the map click here. |
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